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Curriculum Vitae

Candace Jesse Stout

January 2005
The Ohio State University
Department of Art Education
258 Hopkins Hall
128 North Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio
E-mail: stoutcj@earthlink.net

Current Position

2001-Present

Associate Professor of Art Education, College of the Arts, Department of Art Education, The Ohio State University. Teaching responsibilities include the following: (graduate courses)

Overview of Research Methods in Art Education; Issues in Graduate Study in Art Education; Social and Cultural Research Methods in Art Education; Writing Art Criticism.

Past Experience

2001-1995

Associate Professor of Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia

1995-1994

Associate Professor of Art and Area Coordinator of Art Education at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

1993-1991

Assistant Professor of Art Education, Buffalo State University College, Buffalo, NY

1991-1984

Visiting Assistant Professor, Departments of Art and Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia

1990-1985

Supervisor of Student Teaching, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Missouri

1990

Curriculum Advisor for European Visiting Faculty Scholars, Fulbright Summer Institute of American Studies, University of Missouri

1990-1989

Assistant Professor, School of Education Summer Institute in Continuing Professional Education

1989-1987

Instructor, Missouri Scholars Academy for Gifted and Talented High School Students

1984-1976

Language Arts Teacher, Hickman High School, Columbia, Missouri

1976-1974

Language Arts Teacher, Parkway Central High School, St. Louis, Missouri

1974-1972

English and Arts Teacher, Hancock Junior High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Degrees

1989

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Missouri-Columbia. Areas of Concentration: Art Education and Curriculum Theory, Art Criticism and Aesthetics Studio Emphasis: Photography

Dissertation:

Students' Questions in College Art History Classes: An Investigation of Cognitive Level, Content, and Student Perceptions of Questioning Behavior

1985

M. Ed. Art Education, University of Missouri-Columbia

1968

B. S. English Language and Literature; minor Allied Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee

Single Author Publications

Books

Stout, C. (2000). The Flower Teachers: Stories for A New Generation.Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.

Stout, C. (1995). Critical Thinking and Writing in Art. Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Educational Publishing Company.

Refereed Articles/Book Chapters

Stout, C. (2003). The Art of Opening Dialogues. The Journal of Thought, 38 (2), 13-20.

Stout, C. (2003). The Art of Empathy: Teaching Students to Care. In J. Portelli and W. Hare, Eds. Philosophy of Education: Introductory Readings. 3rd Ed. Calgary: Detselig Press.

Stout, C. (2000). In the Spirit of Art Criticism: Reading the Writings of Women Artists. Studies in Art Education, 41 (4), 346-360.

Stout, C. (2000). A Review of Graeme Chalmers' Why Focus on the Common Ground? The Journal of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, vol. 17, Fall, 1999. [printed in 2000]

Stout, C. (1999). Artists As Writers: Enriching Perspectives in Art Appreciation. Studies in Art Education, 40 (3), 226-241.

Stout, C. (1999). The Art of Empathy: Teaching Students to Care. The Journal of Art Education, 52 (2), 21-34.

Stout, C. (1997). Multicultural Reasoning and The Appreciation of Art. Studies in Art Education, 38 (2), 96-111.

Stout, C. (1995). Critical Conversations About Art: A Description of Higher-Order Thinking Generated Through the Study of Art Criticism. Studies in Art Education (Special Issue on Higher-Order Thinking In Art), 36 (3), 170-188.

Stout, C. (1993). The Response Journal: A Forum For Critical Consideration. Studies in Art Education, 35, (1), 34-44.

Stout, C. (1993). Burchfield and Technology: A Collaboration. Curriculum Guide for New York State Art Teachers. Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo State University College, Buffalo, New York.

Stout, C. (1992). Critical Thinking and Microwriting in Art Appreciation. Visual Arts Research, 8, (1), 57-71.

Stout, C. (1990). An Analysis of Students' Questions in College Art History Classes. Visual Arts Research, 16, (1), 58-76.

Stout, C. (1990). Emphasis on Expressive Outcomes in Teaching Art Appreciation. The Journal of Art Education, 43, (5), 57-65.

Stout, C. (1989). Teachers' Views of the Emphasis on Reflective Teaching Skills During Their Student Teaching. The Elementary School Journal, 89 (4), 497-515.

Stout, C. (1988). The Intelligent Viewer. Missouri English Bulletin,46 (3), 2-7.

Stout, C. (1986). When Art Educators Exhibit. The Journal of the Missouri Art Education Association: MAEA Show Me Art. Spring Issue.

Stout, C. (1984). Which Label Fits Your Teaching Style? NEA Today, 2 (7), 22.

Stout, C. (1982). Why Cooperating Teachers Accept Students. Journal of Teacher Education, 33 (6), 22-24.

Stout, C. (1980). In Praise of Peer Appraisal. Arizona English Bulletin, 22 (2), 162-165.

Published Abstracts

1996 On Ponderings and Paintings: Critical Thinking in The Study of Art Appreciation. The Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking And Educational Reform. The Center For Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

1995 Critical Thinking and Criticizing Art. The Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking And Educational Reform. The Center For Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

1993 Writing For Critical Thinking in The Arts. The Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking And Educational Reform. The Center For Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

1991 Writing That Shapes Critical Thinking in The High School Art Classroom. The Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking And Educational Reform. The Center For Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

1986

Linguistic Proficiency and It's Application to Art Criticism and Art Appreciation.. Working Papers in Art Education, 5, 77-83.

Administrative/Supervisory Experience

2005

Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Art Education, OSU

2002-2004

Chair Personnel Committee, Department of Art Education, OSU

2002

Chair Search Committee, Department of Art Education, OSU Field Supervisor of Student Teachers

1995

Area Coordinator for Art Education, Department of Art, Texas Tech University

1995-1994

Coordinator of Student Teaching, Department of Art, Texas Tech University

1998-1984

Field Supervisor of Student Teachers in Missouri, New York, Texas, Georgia

1991-1984

Supervision of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Editorships/Editorial Advisory Boards

2007-2005

Senior Editor: Studies in Art Education

2005-2003

Co-Editor: Studies in Art Education

2004-2000

Editorial Advisory Board: Studies in Art Education

2005-1999

Editorial Advisory Board: Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education.

1989-1988

Associate Editor: INSEA NEWS (International Society for Education Through Art)

1988-1984

Associate Editor: Multicultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education

Honors, Awards, Prizes, Distinctions

2002

Distinguished Faculty Award: The University of Georgia Career Center Student Development Award

1992

Who's Who In American Education

1989

Who's Who Among Graduate Students in American Colleges and Universities

1987

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UMC

1987

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for Department of Art, UMC

1986

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UMC

1986

Mary McMullan Packwood Scholarship in Art Education

1976

Merit Teaching Award, Parkway Public Schools, St. Louis

1976

Who's Who Among Teachers in American Public Schools

National Visiting Lecturer/Invited Keynote Addresses

2003

Invited Lecture, the University of Cincinnati, Department of Art and Art Education: 900 Years in The Art Classroom: The Flower Teachers Project

2002

Invited Annual Art Education Department Lecture, University of Texas-Austin: The Flower Teachers' Project

1993

Keynote Speaker, Missouri Association of Teachers of English State Conference: A Richness Runs Through It.

1992

Keynote Speaker, Washington State Art Education Association, Seattle, Washington. Critical Thinking and Writing in the Art Classroom.

1992

Keynote Speaker, Calloway County Schools District Staff Development Conference. Critical Thinking For The 21st Century. Fulton, Missouri.

Invited International Presentations

2003

Robert Jackson Memorial Lecture, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia: On Art Education: Leading the Way to Care

1996

"Shocks of Awareness and Moments of Being: The Visual Arts as a Forum For Promoting Diversity Awareness, Understanding, and Appreciation." Invited Visiting Lecturer Series. National University of Singapore, Department of Language and Literature, Singapore.

1996

"On Ponderings and Paintings: The Role of Critical Thinking in The Appreciation of Art" and "Multicultural Reasoning Through the Visua Arts." The Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking And Educational Reform. The Center For Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

1995

"Critical Thinking and Criticizing Art." The Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking & Educational Reform. The Center For Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

1993

"Creating Writing Assignments To Generate Critical Thinking in The Arts." The 13th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking & Educational Reform. Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma State University, California.

1991

"Writing That Shapes Critical Thinking in the Visual Arts." The 11th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking & Educational Reform. Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique. Sonoma State

National Chaired Symposium

1998 "Art Education For A New Century: Opening A Vision of Care." A symposium for the National Art Education Association Conference,Chicago.

National Presentations

2005

"A Researcher's Responsibility and Reciprocity: The Feminist Ethic of Care." National Art Education Association Conference, Boston.

2003

"Reflections on a Phenomenological Research Project." National Art Education Association conference, Minneapolis, MN

2002

"The New Qualitative Writing in Art Education: Demystifying the Process." National Art Education Association conference, Miami.

2002

"Teaching for Critical Thinking in the K-12 Art Classroom." National Art Education Association conference, Miami.

2001

"In the Spirit of Feminist Criticism." National Art Education Association Conference, New York.

2000

"Perspectives on Teaching Art Criticism in a New Century." National Art Education Association, Los Angeles.

1999

"Women As Artists, Thinkers, and Writers." National Art Education Association Conference, Washington DC.

1998

"Artists' Texts: Bringing Interest, Critical Engagement, and Integrity to the Study of Art Criticism." National Art Education Association Conference, Chicago.

1997

"From Private Worlds to Alternative Realities: Imagination and Empathy in Art." National Art Education Association Conference, New Orleans, LA.

1995

"Organic Art Criticism as a Seedbed for Critical Thinking." National Art Education Association Convention, Houston, Texas.

1995

"Burchfield and Technology: Looking at the Past With The Eyes of The Future." National Art Education Association Convention, Houston, Texas.

1993

"Writing To Learn in The Studio Art Classroom." National Art Education Association, National Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

1992

"Assessment of Higher-Order Thinking in the Visual Arts: A Response To That Stuff Can't Be Tested." Second National Conference on Instructional Applications of Critical Thinking, Miami, Florida.

1992

"Soft Writing, Hard Thinking: The Journal in the Visual Arts Context." National Art Education Association National Convention, Phoenix, Arizona.

1991

"Critical Thinking and Writing Skills in The Visual Arts." National Art Education Association National Convention. Atlanta, Georgia.

1986

"Linguistic Proficiency and Its Application to Art Appreciation." National Art Education Conference, New Orleans.

1986

"The Use of the Museum to Teach Art Appreciation." National Art Education Conference, New Orleans.

Selected State Presentations and Workshops

2000

A Critical Eye for Art. Alumni Leadership Conference. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

1996

"Tea and Sympathy and Art and Empathy." Georgia Art Education Association Fall Conference, Macon, Georgia.

1995

"Infusing Multicultural Reasoning Across The Curriculum." Invited district-wide, interdisciplinary workshop, Columbia Public Schools, Columbia, Missouri.

1994

"Assessing Critical Thinking in the Art Classroom." 33rd Annual State Conference of the Texas Art Education Association. Dallas, Texas

1991

"Mind Matters: A Postmodernist Approach to Learning in the Visual Arts." New York State Art Teachers Association, Monticello, New York.

1991

"Response Journals: Toward More Insightful Assessment." New York State Art Teachers Association, Monticello, New York.

1991

"Photography as Writing Stimulus in Art Appreciation: A Gallery Tour of Constance Stuart Larrabee's WW II Photo Journal." Columbia Public Schools Writing in the Content Area Workshop. Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri.

1990

"Teaching Art as a Legitimate Discipline: Aesthetics, Criticism, History." Sedalia, Missouri, Public Schools Fine Arts Faculty Workshop.

1990

"Writing From Observation." The Eleventh Annual University of Missouri State Writing Festival.

1990

"A Writing Field Trip For Columbia Art Teachers." A St. Louis Art Museum Field Trip For The Classroom Teacher. St. Louis, Missouri.

1990

"The Role of Writing in the Visual Arts." Columbia Public Schools, Writing In The Content Area Workshop.

1990

"Survival Skills for the Appreciation of Art." Midday Gallery Talk. Art History Department, University of Missouri.

1989

"Constructing Writing Assignments in the Art Classroom." Columbia Public Schools, Writing In the Content Area Workshop.

1988

"The Visual Arts as a Practical Tool in Teaching Composition." 10th Annual Missouri Conference on Writing, Columbia, Missouri.

1988

"The Intelligent Viewer." 9th Annual Missouri Writer's Festival, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Primary Studio Area

My interest in photography remains integral to my professional growth. Infrared photography has comprised some of my greatest successes, with a focus on landscape and architecture in my home state of Florida. Further work with low-light outdoor photography is also among my interests.

Selected Juried and Invitational Photography Exhibitions

1999

Mid-Missouri Faculty Show. Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri. Millennium Tree, black/white solarization, photography

1996

The University of Georgia Olympic Faculty Exhibit, Athens, Georgia. Exhibited: Zones, black/white photography

1994

Perceptual Excursions, An Annual Faculty Exhibition, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Exhibited: Pickens' Evening, infrared, black/white photography

1991

New York State Art Teachers Association Annual Juried Exhibit. Exhibited: Sontag's Scene and Zones.

1991

Issue: Earth, A National Juried All-Media Competition, Brandstater Gallery, Loma Linda University, Riverside California [Egoism/black- white, infrared, chosen 138 entries out of 1300]

1990

"Four American Photographers," An Exhibition in six American Centers inthe Republics of Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia

1990

Art Department Faculty Exhibit, University of Missouri

1990

Boone County Bank Show, Columbia, Missouri

1988

Andy Tau Invitational Photography Exhibit, Columbia, Missouri

1987

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Exhibition, Miami, Florida. An individual, invited exhibition sponsored by Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Curators

1987

Graduate Students' Exhibit, University of Missouri

1987

Doctoral Exhibit, Brady commons, University of Missouri

1987

Andy Tau Invitational Photography Exhibit, Columbia, Missouri

Grants
Individual

1999

University of Georgia, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Grant

1998

Senior Faculty Research Grants Award, University of Georgia, in support of research project: "The Flower Teachers: A Study of The Personal Experience of the Last Generation of Visual Arts Teachers for the Twentieth Century."

1992

The Research Foundation Grant. Office of Sponsored Research, Buffalo University College

1992 Grant awarded by A Program To Support Faculty For Innovation In Teaching, Buffalo State University College

Institutional Grants

1991

Buffalo State University College, Institutional Grant for Art Education Computer Lab

Grant Consultant

1992

Burchfield Art Center. I served as Curriculum Consultant and author of Burchfield And Technology: A Collaboration With Clarence Schools, a curriculum guide published for New York State art teachers. Project was funded by the Arts-In-Education Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

Curriculum Advisor

1992

Arts in Education Institute of Western New York. Curriculum Advisor and Consultant for Staff Development

Additional Coursework and Studies

1991 Digitize/Image Processing. CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, New York

1987 Photography Studies: Cole Weston, Columbia, Missouri

1972 Washington University, St. Louis: Studies in French Reading Knowledge and Sociological Linguistics

1970 University of South Florida: Graduate Study in Structural and Sociological Linguistics

National Committees

National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking and Writing

National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking and Art and Music

Current University Committees

Department of Art Education: Graduate Studies Committee, Chair

College of the Arts Research Committee

Professional Associations (Current Memberships)

College of the Arts | The Ohio State University